The Delhi High Court said Congress leader N D Tiwari must give his blood sample for a DNA test to decide a paternity suit filed by Rohit Shekhar and he can even be forced to do so if he refuses

The craze for fair skin is just that: A crazy idea. Lydia Durairaj busts the myths that blinds society from the beauty and worth in dark-skinned people and facilitates a ‘fairness industry’

Sri Lankan Minister Douglas Devananda’s threat to enter Indian waters with 5000 Lankan fishermen has revived the demand for arrest of the minister in TN, where he is wanted in a murder case

Retd army officer K Ramaraj was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Chennai fast track court Friday for killing 13-year-old Dilshan, who had entered the army compound to pick almonds

A fact finding team that visited Idinthakarai village recently has found the State cracking down on the peaceful agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant with its full might

Poverty and disability go hand in hand, points out Shampa Sengupta, highlighting the harassment poor people with disabilities face while using public transport like buses, trains and trams

As West Bengal continues to reel under the strong arm tactics of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party men, Sirshendu Panth captures the mood in Kolkata

For all those looking at Narendra Modi as future PM material, Amulya Ganguli has some bad news, as he brands him persona non grata to liberals and some members of the BJP-led NDA

Minu Jain laments the state of women in a country where they are targeted with the latest fairness cream in the market - a 'clean and dry intimate wash' that promises fair private parts

Actor Aamir Khan is among those who have been roped in for a creative campaign to fight malnutrition, which is an UNICEF effort to create awareness on the malaise in India, says Aditi Bishnoi
 

Clean Development Mechanism or CDM is a clear corporate fraud. It only helps Indian companies make money from thin air while polluting the environment, displacing people and destroying nature

Putting the self immolation of a Tibetan protesting Hu Jintao’s visit to India in perspective, Vijay Kranti wonders why the world is not taking note of such suicides and enabling ‘rangzen’

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has withdrawn her party MP from an all-party delegation to Sri Lanka next week, refusing to let up the pressure against the Sinhalese racist regime

India’s nuclear romance has pitted the powerful pro-nuclear establishment against the poor, marginalized people, backed by small groups of human rights defenders, says B R P Bhaskar

Forests rights activist Sanjay Basu Mullik discusses the emerging challenges of forest rights movement with Aparna Pallavi as consumerism threatens to entrap the indigenous people too